This book is designed to introduce the topic of penetration testing using a structured and easy-to-learn process-driven framework.Understand the theoretical aspects of penetration testing and create a penetration testing lab environment consisting of various targets to learn and practice your skills. Learn to comfortably navigate the Kali Linux and perform administrative activities, get to know shell scripting, and write simple scripts to effortlessly run complex commands and automate repetitive testing tasks.Explore the various phases of the testing framework while practically demonstrating the numerous tools and techniques available within Kali Linux. Starting your journey from gathering initial information about the targets and performing enumeration to identify potential weaknesses and sequentially building upon this knowledge to refine the attacks and utilize weaknesses to fully compromise the target machines.The authors of the book lay a particularly strong emphasis on documentation and the importance of generating crisp and concise reports which keep the various stakeholders’ requirements at the center stage.